The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is conducting an investigation into a worker death which occurred Saturday on an oil platform south of Lake Charles.

Officials say the fatality involved a third-party construction worker in an area of the Gulf of Mexico known as West Cameron 215A, about 64 miles south of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

According to a release, the offshore oil and gas operator, Energy Resource Technology GOM, LLC, a subsidiary of Talos Production LLC, reported that the fatality occurred at approximately 10:30 am on Saturday, February. 17, 2018. The worker was removing firewater piping at the time of the incident. No other personnel were harmed.

There was no pollution as a result of the incident.

BSEE Gulf of Mexico Region investigators and inspectors began conducting a thorough investigation into the cause of the fatality over the weekend.